nettop 0.2.3 review

nettop is a program top like which shows the different packet types

License: BSD License File size: 14K Developer: Scott Parish

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nettop is a program top like which shows the different packet types. Possibly useful to determine the nature of packets on a given network and how much bandwidth they are using. I started this my freshman year in college for a networking class final project. Feed back and ideas would be greatly appreciated. A Redhat RPM of 0.2.3 has been made available thanks to Andrew Pam.

You need to have libpcap and slang installed to run this program. You can obtain these packages at the following urls:

ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/
http://www.tcpdump.org/release/

Right now it isn't very portible at all, and doesn't use autoconf. There are also a lot more features that could be added, but i don't have the time or insperation right now. If you find this at all useful and have comments, patches, or just want to let me know that you use it and would apprisiate more features and stuff, i'd be glad to hear from you.

What's New in This Release:
nettop now reads from the /etc/services and /etc/protocols files
udp ports are now shown
installation scripts improvements
indented code